Weekly update: No updates.

Week 1/13 update: worked with Djellel on candidate themes and speakers for future showcases (through June).

Weeks 1/20 and 1/27 updates: no updates

Week 2/3 update: booked February showcase fully; finalized themes; began outreach to speakers for March - June.

@Capt_Swing and @DED: thanks. As discussed in a meeting with Capt_Swing recently, please put the focus on finalizing all speakers for FY20 by the end of February. Please give the team one week to get back to you with time slots they want to use during the coming 4 showcases (March-June) and fill the rest. I have a couple of suggestions for inviting folks in your shared doc. Ping me if you want me to invite any of those folks.

@Capt_Swing it just occured to me: let's drop the April Showcase with a note that we will see folks in Wiki Workshop 2020.

@leila sounds good.

Week 2/10 update: confirmed details for themed showcases in Jan-June (Human in the loop AI; Disinformation); began some documentation; confirmed speakers for March; have contacted two potential thematic speakers for May/June and @DED and I are coordinating with them.

Week 2/17 update: successfully piloted the first showcase under the new rule regime ;) continuing booking for May/June.

Week 2/24: Still in discussion with potential speakers for May and June.

Week 3/2 update: minor documentation updates; trying to finalize speakers for June (Connie Moon Sehat and Tiziano et al.)

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Week 3/9 update: speakers confirmed for March, May, June.

3/16 update: Djellel led a successful themed Research Showcase!

Week 3/23 update: no updates

I provided updated documentation about the new showcase focus and procedures on the OfficeWiki page, and pinged @DED for sign-off/additions. I believe that once he signals that the documentation is complete and correct, we can call this task done.

Week of 4/6 update: no updates

Thanks, Jonathan.

@DED I did a pass voer the documentation and it looks good to me. Two places I have input for:

• Step 5 - Send an email to lists: Can we add short paragraph to all emails that go out and explain why the showcase is relevant to the audiences who receive the emails? Given that our audience is not necessarily a researcher audience, it's important to go beyond the name, title and abstract. If you agree, can you update the doc?

• Step 7 - Make day of announcements We should consider sending pings on the different slack and IRC channels. IRC: #wikimedia-staff and Slack: OCG-General and #technology-department . What do you think?

Step 5: Yes, we slightly tailor the communication with the speakers to clarify this. I will add a short paragraph on relevance in the email.
Step 7: Good idea.